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UPDATED – Notes and Quotes from the Hochfilzen IBU World Cup Weekend

Chelsea LittleDecember 19, 2011

Biathletes on the IBU World Cup circuit hit up Hochfilzen, Austria for the second straight weekend after poor snow conditions in France forced the cancellation of a scheduled weekend there. While doubling up in Hochfilzen wasn’t too exciting, U.S. biathlete Lowell Bailey said that it wasn’t as bad as he’d expected, either. “The second week of racing here in Hochfilzen turned out to be quite a bit different than the first even though we were...

Biathlon World Cup

Biathletes Finish World Cup Period I With Mixed Relay, Russia Dominates

Chelsea LittleDecember 18, 2011

After a grueling early-winter schedule of three consecutive three-race weekends, biathletes around the world were ready to head home for the holidays. But they had one last little piece of business to check off their lists before they departed from Hochfilzen, Austria on Sunday: the first mixed relay of the season. Athletes had to survive a quick six kilometers for the women, seven and a half for the men, and two shooting stages each. A...

Biathlon World Cup

Kocher Improves to 23rd in Biathlon Pursuit; Dunklee, Studebaker 43rd and 44th for U.S.

Chelsea LittleDecember 10, 20111

Is it possible that Magdalena Neuner has checked out of biathlon? The German biathlete – who recently announced that she would retire at the end of the season at the young age of 24, and Full results

Biathlon World Cup

Berger Jets to Pursuit Victory, Leaving a Fading Neuner Fighting for the Podium

Chelsea LittleDecember 4, 2011

Sunday’s 10 k pursuit in Ostersund, Sweden was set up to be a barnburner from the moment the previous day’s sprint ended. With Olympic and World Champions Tora Berger and Magdalena Neuner separated by just 0.2 seconds and last year’s overall World Cup winner Kaisa Makarainen lurking 15 seconds behind, there was no doubt that things would get exciting. Germany’s Neuner and Norway’s Berger skied the first lap together, a study in contrasting styles. Berger’s...

Biathlon World Cup

Neuner Edges Berger By 0.2 Seconds in Ostersund Sprint, Setting Up Exciting Pursuit

Chelsea LittleDecember 3, 2011

Today in Ostersund, Sweden, two women returned to the spots they’re used to occupying on the World Cup biathlon results sheet. For Germany’s Magdalena Neuner, that spot was at the top. The 24-year-old won her 25th World Cup after placing third in a wind-dominated individual race earlier this week. For any other champion, an occasional bad day is standard. But Neuner is so good that seeing her finish over a minute and a half behind...

Biathlon World Cup

Big Wins, and Winds, Are the Thing In Ostersund As Domracheva Takes Minute-Plus Victory

Chelsea LittleDecember 1, 2011

Perhaps never before have the world’s best biathletes’ dreams of perfection been dashed so quickly at the beginning of a season. Over the last two days in Ostersund, Sweden, each one of the world’s top shooters has missed at least one shot. Usually, there’s just a few races like this in a season. This year, both the men’s and women’s World Cup openers have featured incredibly gusty, unpredictable winds. Even without shooting clean, a few...

Biathlon World Cup

USBA Names Twelve Athletes to Pre-World Cup Training Camp in Sweden

Chelsea LittleOctober 26, 2011

Biathlon General World Cup

U.S. Biathletes Shine in European Training Camp; Women’s Team Attends for the First Time

Chelsea LittleAugust 31, 2011

Last year, the U.S. Biathlon Association (USBA) took eight men to Europe for a summer training camp, leaving the women’s team to train by themselves in Lake Placid. Since then, a dedicated women’s coach (Jonne Kahkonen) has been hired, so the women are in some ways more than ever their own team. But this summer three of them were invited to the camp in Germany and are training alongside the men. “For us, it’s definitely...

Biathlon General Results

Bailey Wins Twice at North American Rollerski Biathlon Championships (updated)

Chelsea LittleAugust 8, 2011

The United States Biathlon Association (USBA) held their biggest summer event in Jericho, Vermont this weekend: the North American Rollerski Biathlon Championships, which crowned men’s and women’s champions in four different age categories as well as the masters men’s division. “Things went wonderfully,” said John Madigan, president of the Ethan Allen Biathlon Club, which hosted the races. “It is such a close and fabulous community in biathlon and it is always special when we can...

Biathlon Interviews Olympics World Cup

Interview: USBA Women’s Coach Jonne Kahkonen on Momentum, Mind Games, and Makarainen

Chelsea LittleMay 19, 2011

(Note: This is the second in a series of interviews with U.S. Biathlon Association coaches and staff. The first was with USBA Head Coach Per Nilsson.) Last summer, the U.S. Biathlon Association made a big change by hiring Jonne Kahkonen as a dedicated head coach for the women’s team. Up until that point, the women hadn’t had their own program. “There were enough of us to really warrant having a women’s coach, and having a...

Biathlon Racing

Bailey, Studebaker Lead US Biathlon, Gain FS Biathlete of the Year Honors

Topher SabotMay 6, 2011

FasterSkier Biathlete of the Year Biathlete of the Year (men): Lowell Bailey (USA/USBA) Bailey was one of several bright spots in a somewhat rocky year for the US men’s biathlon team. Coming off a run of several seasons where expectations continued to rise for the program, what with Tim Burke leading the overall World Cup for a time in 2010, Jeremy Teela reaching the World Cup podium in 2009, and a number of strong relay...

Biathlon General News Racing World Cup

Biathlon: US Women Shine at Holmenkollen WC Pursuit

Inge ScheveMarch 19, 20112

US biathletes Sara Studebaker and Haley Johnson were 20th and 21st respectively in the 10K sprint Saturday. They both had four penalties, and they both qualified for the mass start on Sunday. The difference is that while Johnson shot 1-0-1-2, Studebaker was 1-0-0-3.

Biathlon General Results World Cup

Burke, Johnson, and Studebaker Finish 21st, 22nd, and 23rd in Oslo Sprints

Chelsea LittleMarch 17, 20111

Despite coming off of a successful World Championships in which they led the count with eight medals (including two relay golds), the Norwegian team was unable to keep their hot streak going when the World Cup landed on home turf in Oslo. At Holmenkollen Stadium on Thursday, the best the team could muster was a second-place finish by Tora Berger in the women’s 7.5 k sprint. She finished over 30 seconds behind Magdalena Neuner of...

Biathlon Racing

And The Most Improbable Comeback Award Goes To… The German Women

Chelsea LittleMarch 14, 2011

Going into Sunday’s women’s 4 x 6 k relay, there had been plenty of excitement already in this year’s biathlon World Championships. What could top Emil Hegle Svendsen’s furious attack in the last few hundred meters of the previous day’s mass start? Or how could there be a performance more dominating than Helena Ekholm’s two-minute victory in the individual race? Well. The fans in Khanty-Mansiysk didn’t realize it, but they were about to see something...

Biathlon General Results World Cup

Ekholm Tames the Wind to Win World Champs Individual By Over Two Minutes

Chelsea LittleMarch 9, 20111

Part of every biathlete’s job is to manage conditions on the range, which includes making adjustments for the wind. But there are days when the wind makes that all but impossible and the weather seems to be laughing in the face of the world’s best shooters. Wednesday in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, was just such a day, with only a single woman in the World Championships field shooting clean, and most shooting quite far from it. “Today...

Biathlon General World Cup

Where the Heck is Khanty-Mansiysk?

Chelsea LittleMarch 7, 20116

The world’s best skiers are getting the experience of a lifetime in Oslo, competing in skiing’s ancestral homeland and getting cheered by a hundred thousand fans. The world’s best biathletes? They’re having a cultural experience too – in Siberia. World Championships are currently being held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, a town of 70,000 inhabitants situated almost 2,000 miles east of St. Petersburg. The International Biathlon Union charters flights from Oslo and Munich to transport athletes and...

Biathlon General Results World Cup

Norway Won That Other World Championships Relay Today, Also

Chelsea LittleMarch 3, 20115

The eyes of the ski world may have been focused on Oslo today, where the Norwegian women ran away with the win in the 4 x 5 k relay, but the biathlon world is focused on Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, where World Championships kicked off today with a mixed relay. And while the result was the same – Norway on top by a solid margin – the route to victory was a lot more challenging for Norway’s...

Biathlon General News Racing World Cup

With Strong Shooting, Neuner Takes Fort Kent Mass Start; Studebaker 23rd

Nathaniel HerzFebruary 13, 2011

Magdalena Neuner is among the fastest skiers on the biathlon circuit—but that’s never been her problem. In the past, it has been her shooting that held her back. So when Neuner puts together a good performance on the range, she’s tough to beat. She did just that in Sunday’s 12.5 k mass start in Fort Kent, hitting 19 of 20 targets to capture a dominating 24-second win over her teammate Andrea Henkel. Belarus’s Darya Domracheva...

Biathlon General News Racing World Cup

Germans Sweep Fort Kent Podium; Studebaker Clean in Second Straight Sprint

Nathaniel HerzFebruary 11, 2011

Northern Maine is best known for its ties to Scandinavia—both New Sweden and Stockhom are within striking distance of the biathlon venues in Fort Kent and Presque Isle. But in the raw conditions for Friday’s 7.5 k World Cup sprint, it was the German women who felt more at home in Fort Kent. Battling through frigid temperatures and a swirling breeze, Andrea Henkel led her country to a sweep of the top three, with Miriam...

Biathlon General News Racing World Cup

Berger Takes Women’s Pursuit in Presque Isle; Studebaker 28th

Nathaniel HerzFebruary 6, 2011

Biathlon is a tough sport to dominate, with millimeters often meaning the difference between a missed target, and a win and second place. But over the past few weeks, Norway’s Tora Berger has still been close to unstoppable, with five victories in her past six races. After a minor hiccup in Friday’s sprint—in which she finished second—Berger was back to the top spot on the podium on Sunday, topping France’s Marie Dorin and Belarus’s Darya...

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